Re: The frustrations of the GPU market

Posted on 2022-10-13, 20:13

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by swaaye

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Looking at their D3D9 driver performance, I would stick with my Nvidia 10 series still. The Intel driver for Xe GPUs doesn't have D3D9 performance at all. It uses d3d9on12. But you can also try dxvk or dgvoodoo2. I think these are probably good enough for most people considering those old games …

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Re: 478 vs 775 insurrection

Posted on 2022-10-10, 01:47

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by swaaye

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Scythe Ninja should definitely take care of all your P4 cooling needs. I also liked those Arctic Cooling Accelero coolers until I had to replace the fans a few times because their bearings go bad.

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Re: zeckensack's Glide wrapper - how did it fare?

Posted on 2022-10-07, 20:20

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by swaaye

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It's probably the best Glide Wrapper circa 2005. It's highly optimized and is designed to work across DirectX 7-9 level cards. It has feature settings to get the most from each generation. It will use the hardware palletized texture support of GeForce FX. And it's primarily for Win98 through XP.

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Re: Which USB 2.0 cards for old motherboards

Posted on 2022-10-06, 15:36

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by swaaye

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Sphere478 wrote on 2022-08-29, 08:33: It’s crazy. These usb 2.0 cards are cancer for retro systems. Imagine all the lag we could have avoided back in the day 🤣 I used PS2 ports into the Athlon 64 days because of bad experiences with USB on 440BX. CPU usage, problems with USB and PCI card …

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Re: New Slot A Board

Posted on 2022-10-05, 19:15

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by swaaye

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Should be AMD 750 and VIA 686A. It's pretty stable in my experience. I'm sure the AGP slot won't get along with some AGP cards though.

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Re: Best VGA to HDMI converter? Suggestions please?

Posted on 2022-10-01, 15:30

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by swaaye

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Probably one of the Extron RGB-DVI or RGB-HDMI boxes. They can be found second hand. ie https://www.extron.com/product/rgbdvi300 Look over this thread. Maybe skip forward to around 2019. VGA Capture Thread Nothing is perfect though.

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Re: AMD Catalyst drivers for Windows XP - newer is NOT better

Posted on 2022-09-26, 10:45

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by swaaye

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There was a second generation of Z68 boards that gained support for Ivy Bridge's x16 PCIe 3.0 lanes. I came across strange stuttering with Oblivion when playing with 2600XT and 2900XT years ago that was solved with using old drivers. I just picked 10.6 at random. So I typically run old drivers for …

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Re: Oldish Acer Veriton Bios Update Help

Posted on 2022-09-22, 04:48

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by swaaye

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Does it possibly have a jumper to enable / disable access to more bios settings? I have a newer Veriton based on Haswell and its bios is not limited like your image. The Intel boot agent is a separate thing for configuring network booting.

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Re: DXVA question on XP

Posted on 2022-09-20, 10:13

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by swaaye

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Here is a look at the old hardware acceleration available with X1800 and GF7 cards. They used a Cyberlink decoder. ATI shows a 60% CPU load, NVIDIA 80% on a Athlon 64 single core 2.4 GHz. It also sounds like the X1800 and X1900 are the only ATI D3D9 cards that are capable of even that level of …

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Re: DXVA question on XP

Posted on 2022-09-18, 19:13

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by swaaye

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You would need to dig up one of the quirky AGP Radeon HD cards to get full H.264 accel. Everything else on AGP has at best partial decoding of it. You may also need to have a CPU with SSE2 support. Search the forum. There have been discussions of this before.

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Re: Direct 3d vs 3dfx texture quality in older games

Posted on 2022-09-13, 01:16

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by swaaye

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As Leileilol said, some games do more fancy things with Glide than D3D. Some games also had effects that were only implemented for Glide. It was very difficult to get the most out of all the different D3D cards back then with varying driver quality and different featuresets.

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Re: S3 Savage 2000 64MB - Any Special Uses for 64MB?

Posted on 2022-09-10, 22:44

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by swaaye

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I think I used the Savage3D (Aopen card) on the ASUS P5A without trouble too.

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Re: S3 Savage 2000 64MB - Any Special Uses for 64MB?

Posted on 2022-09-10, 18:36

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by swaaye

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Yeah my Diamond Viper Z200 / Savage 2000 was trouble with VIA AGP. Even GUI acceleration would stop working sometimes. But with 440BX it worked well so you probably want to use it with Intel AGP.

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Re: S3 Savage 2000 64MB - Any Special Uses for 64MB?

Posted on 2022-09-09, 22:11

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by swaaye

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Savage 2000 is good for Unreal, UT99 and Quake 1/2/3. Anything else is going to be hit or miss. The drivers are quite poor. But for those games it should be significantly faster than Savage 4. The Savage 2000 has about double the fillrate. It's a bit like comparing a TNT1/2 to a GeForce 256. Or a …

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Re: Intel arc and d3d9

Posted on 2022-08-20, 16:04

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I used to have a Surface Pro 4 with the i7, meaning it had the speedier Intel Iris 540 IGP with EDRAM. I played some D3D9 games on it and it seemed to do well enough considering its 15-25W power limit for everything. It is interesting to see them apparently abandoning all their previous work on D3D9 …

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Re: 8 vs 12mb Voodoo 2 performance

Posted on 2022-08-14, 23:06

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kixs wrote on 2022-08-14, 18:23: You don't see a dash board in NFS3 with 8MB version. It's like with a Voodoo1. Because Voodoo1 4MB and Voodoo2 8MB have the same amount of texture memory.

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Re: ATI 9100 or not?

Posted on 2022-08-14, 23:00

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by swaaye

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It has interesting error diffusion 16-bit dithering. A Radeon 9600 is definitely a superior card though. Truform is really of questionable value because few games used it and with those that did you usually need to compare screenshots to notice the difference.

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Re: 8 vs 12mb Voodoo 2 performance

Posted on 2022-08-14, 16:57

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Yeah even a 12MB Voodoo2 is not ideal for the Unreal games and Quake 3. I vaguely remember people saying that Diablo 2 is quite demanding on Voodoo 2 cards. Voodoo2 12MB has problems in some game areas with the expansion pack's optional 800x600. Single digit framerate. I think 800x600 causes more …

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Re: Power consumption: Radeon 9600 pro X1650 Pro or GF4200ti?

Posted on 2022-08-09, 20:16

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by swaaye

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Yeah that chart is interesting. 9600 indeed. X1650 is big jump up in power consumption.

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Re: Power consumption: Radeon 9600 pro X1650 Pro or GF4200ti?

Posted on 2022-08-09, 19:24

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by swaaye

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None of them are going to be particularly high power consumption but the Radeons are probably the least. You could use an AC wattmeter to measure if you feel like it.

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